Five More Offecct Products Certified by Möbelfakta

#csr #swscr

We are proud to announce that the Offecct products CORNFLAKE chair, LITE chair in laminate, FLOAT HIGH and HIGH LARGE, OYSTER HIGH and LOW, as well as the easy chair QUEEN and the chairs QUILT and QUICK have just been certified by Möbelfakta.

Möbelfakta

Möbelfakta provides guidelines within three areas:

1. quality,
2. environment and
3. social responsibility.

Supplier of the Year

#design #supplier

Yesterday we organized our annual supplier event. Suppliers from different areas such as textile, leather, compression molding and metal came to listen to lectures on future developments at OFFECCT.

The day began with the traditional Swedish Lucia procession before the rest of the day was filled with talks and lectures. OFFECCT CEO Kurt Tingdal talked [...]

Learning about Lean

#lean

Lean production and administration is a philosophy of resource handling. The purpose is to identify all parts of a process that do not add value for the client, and eliminate them.

Here at OFFECCT we began to work with the concept of lean about one and a half years ago. We started in the production process, [...]

Bio-Based Plastics

#design #plastic #sustainability

A few weeks ago we visited the fair Muovi Plastics in Lahti, Finland. Plastic is an important material in the design of furniture, and at the fair several suppliers of biopolymers and biocomposites were present. Bio-based plastics are interesting from an environmental point of view, and we continuously monitor the branch and its [...]

ROBO Chosen for the ADI Design Index 2011

#design #ADI

The OFFECCT chair ROBO by Luca Nichetto has been selected for the ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) design index 2011. The book of all designs selected for the index was presented yesterday November 30 2011.

The inclusion of ROBO in the index means that next year ROBO will have the chance to [...]

Corporate Social Responsibility Forum

#swgreen #swcsr

Recently OFFECCT’s QE manager Joachim Schubert participated at a forum in Gothenburg on the theme of CSR (corporate social responsibility) held by CSR Västsverige.

The forum brought together enterprises and students to explore the concept of CSR. The day began with a researcher talking about the concept and its meaning. The truth is that the [...]

The OFFECCT Blog Nominated as one of Sweden’s Best Green Blogs

#swgreen #enlagomdosgront

For the second consecutive year, Sweden’s Best Green Blogs will be awarded. The OFFECCT blog is one of the nominated in the category Interior Design. The voting began on November 9 and continues until November 27 through the website Enlagomdosgrönt.se (“A faire dose of green” in Swedish).

We are very pleased and proud to have [...]

Elle Interiör Showcased Amazonas at the Hem&Villa Fair

#offecct #swgreen #elle

During the Hem&Villa Fair (home and house in Swedish) held in Stockholm October 13-16 visitors could admire the OFFECCT tables Amazonas at ELLE Interiör’s booth. The Fair presents the green trends for the home of tomorrow through a wealth of tools, materials and interior design.

Elle Interiör Showcased Amazonas at the Hem&Villa Fair

Amazonas [...]

Tomorrow Green - Today!

#swgreen #design #sustainability

This past week we participated at a conference with an environmental theme, namely Imorgon Grön (Swedish for “Tomorrow Green”). Swedish magazine Miljö&Utveckling held the conference in Stockholm, focusing on the challenge of combining profit making and environmental sustainability in companies.

iMORGON GRÖN

The conference provided us with the opportunity to build on our [...]

4, 3, 2, 1, We Have a Lift-off - the Fly Chair by Patrick Norguet

This spring we are proud to announce the Fly chair by French designer Patrick Norguet. Our design team worked together with Patrick for no less than four years in order to define a proper product technology to create a technical textile with minimal environmental impact. Very little energy is used to make the fabric ensuring [...]